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I found it!!!

Pops
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Who's the dummy?......

Pops is....that's who.....

Saturday, as I was doing the chore that "all single bachelors hate to do".....that being putting away my laundry....I happened upon a suitcase that I had left in the corner of my bedroom from my last trip to Ohio a few weeks ago.  I thought to myself, "you lazy turd....pick that up and take it into the spare bedroom where it belongs!"  Well, it seems my laziness caused me an unnecessary amount of stress, because as I lifted it from the floor....I vaguely recognized my black trifold wallet laying ever so quietly underneath it.....lol.  Well, the good thing is...nobody has my credit info, and I actually now had some found money that I thought that I had lost.  Almost all of the credit cards that I had reported lost had already been mailed to me, and reactivated...so it was all in all...a very good find!  Never mind my absent mindedness that seems to come at a much more frequent interval than I would care for....I hope this isn't a tale of dimensia starting to set in....OMG!  That is all that I need now that I am almost ready to go into retirement....I want to have at least ten years of rebel rousing and hurricane slinging & karaoking in my retirement!  I'll be damned if I am going to sit around like a vegetable just aging on the kitchen counter....waiting for someone to throw me away since I have already been bruised!  I'm still here, and I want to party for awhile.  Smokefree at that....!!!! woo hoo!!!!!

Speaking of which....Pops has 109 Days of Freedom today!  Yeah!!!!!

Have a great and relaxing evening.....

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot". xoxoxo Pops update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!